ISTITUTO CRISTO RE
LICEO LINGUISTICO
PROGRAMMAZIONE DIDATTICA
a.s. 2015-2016
Disciplina:
Inglese
Docente:
M.CUCCINIELLO
Classe:
III LICEO LINGUISTICO
Libro di testo:
Performer Culture & Literature 1 From the Origins to the Eighteenth
Century - Objective First Cambridge university press
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
Programma di letteratura:
The Origins
Historical context: the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the end of the Anglo-Saxon period
and the Vikings.
Literary context: Beowulf.
Anthology: “Beowulf and Grendel: the fight”; “Beowulf’s funeral”.
Cultural Issues: Good vs. Evil
The Viking attacks
The Middle Ages
Historical context: the Norman Invasion, the Wars of Successions, the Plantagenet and Henry II,
King John and the Magna Carta, The three orders of medieval society
Literary context: Robin Hood
Popular Ballad. Anthology: “Bonny Barbara Allen”
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales.
Anthology: “The Wife of Bath” (Chaucer).
The Renaissance
Historical context: The Black Death, The war of the Roses,the rise of the Tudor Dynasty, the
Reformation, the Reign of Elizabeth I.
Literary context: Poetry in the Elizabethan Age, Elizabethan entertainment, the Italian and English
sonnet, introduction of Shakespeare as a sonneteer.
Anthology: “I find no peace”(T. Wyatt); “Pace non trovo” (Petrarca); selection of Shakespearian
sonnets from Shakespeare’s collection of sonnets.
Shakespeare
Elizabethan Theatre. The Elizabethan theatre and the first playhouses in London.
Anthology: “Two Households”and “The ball” (from Romeo and Juliet), “The three witches” and
“Duncan’s murder”(from Macbeth), “The Tempest” "Prospero renounces his magical powers"
(from The Tempest).
Grammar:
Comparisons of adjectives
Review of Present tenses
Review of Past tenses
Review of Future tenses
Conditionals
Reported Speech
Pronunciation skills
Vocabulary practice
